Providence College graduate Kevin McCarron was in critical condition after being brutally beaten by a gang in Greenwich Village Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE — The victim of a savage attack on MacDougal Street and his friends tried to walk away from a confrontation with another group over the weekend — but the alleged attackers, armed with baseball bats and other weapons, pounced on them anyway, law enforcement sources said.

The brutal beating, which left Kevin McCarron, 24, hospitalized with a fractured skull, occurred early Sunday after a reunion of seven graduates from Providence College, sources said. After a night on the town, the group stopped by Artichoke Pizza and headed toward the subway to sleep at one of the pals' homes in posh Dobbs Ferry.

That's when the other group of men, who were standing near a car, shouted at them, sources said. A war of words ensued, but the Providence bunch tried to defuse the heated altercation by walking away.

But the other men — which included Hatem Farsakh, 24, and Sherif Rizk, 22, both of Brooklyn — didn't let it go, the sources said.

"We are going to f--- you up," one of the alleged attackers said to McCarron and friends, sources said.

That man then popped the trunk of the car and pulled out a bat and other weapons, which he and his friends used to pummel McCarron and his friends outside 95 MacDougal St., police said

After McCarron went unconscious, the suspects jumped into the car and fled, sources said.

McCarron, an Andover, Mass., resident, was rushed to New York Hospital, where he remained in critical condition, cops said Wednesday.

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